witling
Example Sentences
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But the chopping-boss, his humorous gaze on the witling, remarked: “I reckon I’ll have to rule that song out, after this, ‘Hitchbiddy.’”
From King Spruce, A Novel by Holman Day
While through the press enraged Thalestris flies, And scatters death around from both her eyes, A beau and witling perished in the throng, One died in metaphor, and one in song.
From The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems by Alexander Pope
Its title was "The End of the Comedy"; and a wretched witling pretended that the piece was ill-named, since the pit refused to see the end of the comedy.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 83, September, 1864 by Various
The author was a learned witling, but in no respect a poet.
From Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature by John Black
Her age was the favorite theme of the callow witling, her cause a never-failing subject for reproach and abuse.
From The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2) Including Public Addresses, Her Own Letters and Many From Her Contemporaries During Fifty Years by Ida Husted Harper
